One Year Later

The small brick duplex that used to be a few houses away from us was demolished a year ago yesterday.  The duplex had not been occupied since November 2013,  It was in the fall of 2014 that several large trees behind the duplex were cut down.  By March 2015 there was a dumpster in the driveway and a "For Sale" sign from Keller Williams and a Black Dawg Construction sign in the front yard.

It was demolished a year ago yesterday, on July 2, 2015.

By the next morning, there was just a pile of debris; in this picture, the trees that were cut down the previous year are still visible behind where the house used to be.

And here it is a couple of days later, after the heavy equipment was gone.

The debris got removed along with the remains of the trees that were cut down, but by fall there was a dumpster, a pile of rocks, and a trailer on the lot.

There also was a puddle at the low point of the back yard that never really went away.

By January 2016, the dumpster was gone, but otherwise nothing much had changed.

By early June, the trailer was gone and the grass and weeds had grown tall.

There still was a puddle in the back, maybe because there was an open drainage pipe.

 

These pictures were taken about two weeks later.  Someone had mowed the weeds, tidied up a little, and put the signs back up, but the rocks were still piled up near the mailbox.

Now, we're a year out from demolishing the house, and the lot is still a mess and there's still mud in the back yard, even though it's been a long time since it rained.

I don't know if or when this will ever get cleaned up, but if I were Black Dawg Construction or Keller Williams, I really wouldn't want to have my sign here.